Nybro Action Team! Girls Recap: Episode Eight

The Nybro Action Team consists of Hjalmar Sveinbjőrnsson and Alex Bejerstrand, two under-employed friends and former Nybro residents now living in northern Sweden. Hjalmar is a student and a chef; Alex helps run his father's talent agency. They will be recapping Season 3 of HBO's Girls.

Lets get this party
STARTED !!!

We are back with episode 8
of Girls and we are actually in a good mood, the episode has been
watched, screenshots have been taken and Alex is hard at work at the
drawings and we are both feeling cheerful because even the episode's
first scene displayed what happened in the end of the last episode
where the friend group was falling apart and we hope that is going to
be enjoyable but we might wrong, Lena Dunham has already gotten a
contract for the fourth season.

Some
people here have been wondering about Lena Dunham need for near
nudity dictatorship and we did stumble upon this article from Time entertainment from January:

Dunham's unabashed nudity on the show came up in a Q&A session afterward, as one reporter asked Dunham why she is constantly naked on the show. "Do you have a girlfriend?" Apatow shot back at the reporter. "Does she like you?" Dunham answered the question by saying that the nudity on the show is "a real human expression" and added, "If you're not into me, that's your problem."

I
went and checked out who Apatow is and he looked to old to be going
through "puberty" and I didn't find Dunham's answer fulfilling
because on one hand she is fighting against the notion that every
single girl should look like Barbie and on the other hand 80 percent of the
show is just fat jokes.

After
the intro scene and the Girls logo we join Hanna as she sits by a
table at a bistro and all alone, the waiter comes up and asks if she
is sure if she can't get her something else than a glass of water,
but her reply is that she is waiting for Patti Lupone and when the
waiter does not recognize the name she sings the line "don't wait
for me Argentina" but did not help and she storms away in
disapproval of Hanna taking one of the best seats in the house.

Hanna
gets a call from Adam that is at the "call back" but has to stop
as the "denim-clad" man next to him warns him the casting
director disapproval of phones in the waiting room or the fact Adam
says "everyone here looks like him with a noise job" and "I
am not here to make friends."

We
are outside Jessa's workplace where she looks incredible bored and
when the delivery guy shows up he is obviously in a hurry to leave
before that crazy girl stalks talking to him and he gets in trouble
at work or becomes that involved in Jessa's life that he ends up
having to fake his death.

We
cut again to Hannah at the bistro where she just got an text/email
telling her that Patti has canceled the interview, obviously upset
she just leaves and we are back at Adam's callback where he is told he
has gotten the part, stoked with excitement and being Adam he goes
into the bathroom, stuffs a bunch of toilette paper into his mouth and
screams in half suffocated joy.

As he leaves the building obliviously excited of finally landing a part
he meets denim-man standing in front of his BMW R series motorcycle
from the '70-'80s, not entirely sure about the year but I love the older
bikes and café racers, damn you Lena, making us care! … But the denim-man offers Adam a lift and he accepts and they ride away down
the city streets.

We
are at an unknown bar where Patti Lupone is on stage with her pianist
getting ready for tonight's performances, she makes a remark to the
pianist that he needs to hit the keys harder and that is why he is
having trouble with his girlfriend. Hannah introduces herself as she
walks in and Patti's response is that she canceled the interview, but
Hannah knew and had called her publicist and found out she was here,
she needs that article done today and hopes she can convince Lupone who asks how long it going to take, Hannah says it is going just
be 5 to 35 minutes. She gets five minutes.

They
sit down and she explains to Patti that this is just like a normal
article BUT the exception is that they have to squeeze in the product
they are selling, pills against osteoporosis. Turns out she does
not even have it but they are just going to lie, so she has had it
for 5 years, if you are wondering what osteoporosis
is then it's when your bone loses mass and density, most often
because of age and one of the most common symptoms is "old
people hump back."

They try to find a good story for how she
discovered she had "hump back" and they realize they have a
lot in common, mainly just being lazy and easily "hysterical."

We
are at some yogurt shop where Marnie meets up with her old friend Su Lin
played by Greta Lee, the have a short talk when they are walking down
the street and Marnie becomes jealous of her friend's achievements
like soon she will open her own art gallery and still doing "porno"
on the side.

Marnie
tries to land a job from her, but she just offers her to come and see
the opening, scene ends with a really one-sided hug and we cut back
to Hannah and Lupone.

They
are not talking about the "hump back syndrome" but the fact
that Adam is going to fuck everyone in the building, the fans and
what ever moves, her relationship is doomed, that of course is
massively helpful for her, we are back in the snack room in GQ where
Hanna is sitting with Jessica Williams, they are talking about what
happened today and how mind-fucked she is after Lupone has mind-fucked
her with how Adam is going to change, the editor-in-chief comes in to
give Hannah a new assignment and she is supposed to stay at some fancy
hotel overnight and then leaves.

But
that topic is off the table when someone from the accounting brings
them their paychecks and Hannah is blown away over how much she is
making a week now, more than her month's rent so she is going to head
into town and "make it rain," of course we get a "montage"
of Hannah walking down a street and buying a new dress.

We
are back with Jessa in the store where she sits on top of the counter
eating some chocolate and in comes Jasper her older friend from
rehab, they have a short argument how well she is doing but he tells
her how shitty her life is because "people like them" are
not suppose to work in places like this!, is this how Lena projects
the "counter culture"? Because those people are just
junkies but I am glad to see Jasper is back, maybe if we are lucky he
will cause Jessa to "not exist" any more.

We
are at the hotel where Hannah, Elijah and Shosh are getting ready for
Adam's surprise celebration tonight but ends up mostly with Elijah
sobbing over that it's Adam that is the first one to fulfill his life
long dream, Shosh comes in and says something Shosh-like and makes
me miss her drinking last episode.

We
are at Ray's apartment where Marnie shows up with a pizza but mostly
with her "problems" and start laying them down thick, Ray
has enough and tells her that he does not want this, he wants a real
girlfriend not a girl that is ashamed of him, does not say that in
so many words but we know.

Marnie
tells him that he is not going to get to "dump" the girl he
dreamed off in high school because she does NOT CARE and then leaves... with the pizza.

We
are back at the hotel where Adam and Denim-man finally show up for
the party, the girls and Elijah jump out of the side room shouting
"SURPRISE", next scene and we are sitting in the living
room and Denim-man is telling everyone one of his exciting "outdoor"
adventure story´s about being in the "back country" only
with a blanket and a bottle of water when he realized he was missing
his mother's birthday but suddenly in storms Marnie with the box of
cold pizza and hysterically and congratulates Adam for the Broadway
success and then announces that she needs to go to the bathroom and
is totally "A O K."

Hanna ends up going after her and
Marnie ends up crying in her arms, a little later when the girls exit
and join the group in the living room the denim-man is playing some
bluegrass song and the rest of group sits there "puppy eyed"
listening to him play.

After
the song Marnie is trying to get in denim pants of Denim man but
turns out he has a girlfriend that is at home making "paella" and
he needs to head home, while this is happening you can see Elijah
having a conversation with Adam, he looks like he is in pain and
Elijah thinks he has found his way-out from "improvised dancing"
when Jessa and Jasper enter the party with their crazy crazy
attitude, Jasper saying he knows everyones name but of course gets
them all wrong then they head into one of the bedrooms and Hannah
notices that maybe they should not have taken her out of rehab, where
in next scene you can see him and Shosh having a very high strong
conversation about leaving school when Jessa comes in to announce
that she knows where to get money.

Of
course we see them break into the children cloth store she works and
steal some cash and cut to them in Jessa's bedroom sniffing white
powder and him graping her tits but she pushes his hand lazy away to
get a clear path to the mirror of lines.

Last
scene we see Hannah and Adam in the bath tub having a conversation
about their friends, he mentions how tired he was of Elijah
talking about a lot of stupid shit while she mentions maybe that is
how she sees his friend Denim-man, but they are talking about this
in a very nice way, actually the most "real" I seen that couple
from start, specially because Adam spots that she might be worried
about his success being the person she is, but she says "no… no.
no... god no..."

Well this episode was not that bad and felt
short, even though my writing ended up in four pages and got cut
down, don't worry because we are not going to miss what I edited out,
mostly just "fan-fiction" about Jessa and Jasper, but on those
notes lets end this now.